ASL-202 American Sign Language IV
This course is the fourth in a series of courses designed to advance the skills and knowledge needed to communicate in American Sign Language. ASL 202 develops a novice-high to intermediate range of communication skills with the ability to convey information, concepts, and ideas in ASL on a variety of topics. This course emphasizes articulating the cultural practices and products distinct to those that approach the world from a visual perspective. Topics include: analysis of a linguistic, political, or social issue; examination of products of Deaf culture; and, exploration of career pathways. This course carries SUNY General Education World Language credit.
Prerequisite
ASL-201 or Requisite Experience
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Course Outline
Course Description
This course is the fourth in a series of courses designed to advance the skills and knowledge needed to communicate in American Sign Language. ASL 202 develops a novice-high to intermediate range of communication skills with the ability to convey information, concepts, and ideas in ASL on a variety of topics. This course emphasizes articulating the cultural practices and products distinct to those that approach the world from a visual perspective. Topics include: analysis of a linguistic, political, or social issue; examination of products of Deaf culture; and, exploration of career pathways. This course carries SUNY General Education World Language credit.
Credit Hours
3Semester(s) Course Will Be Offered
Spring
Prerequisites
ASL-201 or Requisite Experience
SUNY General Education Course
Course Learning Outcomes
- Employ a novice-high to intermediate range of communication skills: interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational with the ability to convey information, concepts, and ideas in ASL on a variety of topics.
- Critique product(s) of Deaf culture; such as, literature in a variety of genres: poetry, stories, folktales, jokes, and art. Products may include videophones, alerting devices, and video logs (vlogs).
- Select a topic that is of personal interest; and, compose one's own or appraise others: artwork, poetry, video, etc.
- Select a linguistic, political, or social issue relevant to Deaf people and compare to one's own (or) the majority culture.
- Investigate pathways to careers involving ASL or pathway to one's own career.
Topic Outline
- Communication: ASL with ability to convey information, concepts, and ideas on a variety of topics
- Complex statements: conditionals, when clauses, conjunctions , topicalization, and rhetorical.
- Non-manual markers: grammatical, emotive, size, shape, relative distance, temporal (repeated/continual) and degree (with attention/careless, etc.)
- Classifiers: semantic, descriptive, locative, instrumental, body and body-part, environmental and plural
- Functional structures: contrastive structure, spatial agreement, role-shifting, ranking/listing, real world orientation
- Advancing expressive and receptive fingerspelling skills to include lexicalized fingerspelling
- Maintain interaction in full-immersion signing environment
- Cultures
- Examination of Deaf literature: art, poetry, storytelling, folktales, jokes and/or technology, such as: videophones, Glide, alerting devices, VLOGS
- Connections
- Select a topic that is of personal interest; and, compose one’s own or appraise others’ art work, poetry, video, etc.
- Comparisons
- Analyze a linguistic, political, or social issue, relevant to deaf people and compare to one’s own culture and community
- Language status of ASL here in the US and other countries
- Agencies (NAD, ASLTA, RID, LEAD-K)
- Civil rights (law, hospital, military, work place, etc.)
- Communities
- Explore and articulate pathways to careers involving ASL or pathway to one’s own chosen career
- Transferring institutions
- Length and depth of study
- Pros and cons